How do you get an RTF stream to work ?

[ChrisHS]

I'm trying to get a Richtext box as a screen logfile to work.

I've used RTF with EditstreamCallback in MSVC 6 & want to get the same thing working in labview. (I'm using 8.2 Professional)

I can't seem to find any relavent examples in the help or forums.

Has anyone done this before & is willing to reveal how ?

The Stream allows content to be added till you run out of ram & swap without loosing anything & keeping scroll back to the beginning & doing the memory management for you.

Text, fonts, colour, tab settings, images etc can be added to the RTF box.

It can be saved & printed.

I have tried & made a RTF control display from a saved rtf file, it doesn't track adding new content & has to be reloaded for each update made.

I have made 'rtf command text' be displayed direct but I have to do the buffering work & have to add onto the previous text line each time.

Both of these seem to me to use resources a lot.

Any help appreciated.

Chris

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[chrisger]

hi there

have you tried the "RichTextBox" control from the ".NET and ActiveX" palette? Never deald with that, but maybe its useful.

[ChrisHS]

The two goes at making it work used that LV control.

You then have to register a callback for the stream to read in the new information when you want to add something.

That's the bit I can't get to work.......

Ta,

Chris

[smercurio_fc]

Can you post what you've done so far?